Bahrain tops P22 Arab nations SPORTS 2424 Saturday, May 20, 2017

Bakou ahead of a strong Gambian team. ahrain’s sprinters Iran sprinted to gold in the men’s enjoyed another 4x100m disability relay (T11/T12/T13) stunningB day as they won after wrecked their chances three more athletics gold with a botched handover in the second medals yesterday at the fourth change zone. Islamic Solidarity Games The Iranian quartet of Arash Khosravi, Bahrain in . Amir Khosravani, Vahid Alinajimi and Salwa Hossein Saeidi won in 45.24secs ahead of Eid Naser Turkey in the three-team final. got Bahrain Bronze was not awarded after the off to a Azeris failed to finish. Creve Armando great start Machava won the men’s 400m hurdles in the to seal Mozambique’s first-ever Islamic evening Solidarity Games gold medal. session The 21-year-old edged to victory in at the 50.73secs ahead of Senegal’s Amadou Olympic Ndiaye and compatriot Kurt Couto. lands Stadium Friday was a day of firsts as Jessica as she beat Da Silva Inchude won Guinea-Bissau’s team-mate first-ever medal at these Games with a title-winning effort of 50.23m in the women’s discus. Bahrain’s shot put bronze medallist Oluwakemi Noora Salem Jasim fell 0.11m short Adekoya and took silver, with ’s Amina t o the women’s Moudden completing the podium. 400m title. Moroccan middle-distance star three Naser, who turns 19 next Rababe Arafi successfully defended her week, showed great promise women’s 1500m title after pulling away in making the semi-finals at from Turkey’s Meryem Akdag. the Rio Olympics, and she The 26-year-old, who finished ninth in secured her first major title the world championship final two years in a time of 51.33secs at the ago, cruised to gold in four minutes and expense of pre-race favourite 18.82secs, over a second clear of Akdag. Adekoya. Algeria’s Amina Bettiche threw herself Adekoya had hoped to forward to snatch bronze on the line from make it a 400m double after she Bahrain’s Tigist Gashaw, who missed out more won gold in the hurdles final on the podium by just 0.02secs. over this distance, but the Asian Yahya Berrabah hurled himself to Games champion couldn’t catch men’s glory as he sealed her compatriot after a poor start. Morocco’s second gold of the day and The Bahraini gold dust spilled sixth in athletics with an effort of 8.07m. on to the 4x100m relays as their That was well ahead of the rest, with sprinters surged to victory in the Suriname’s Miguel Van Assen leaping men’s and women’s finals. 7.63m for silver and another Moroccan, Eid Naser was back on Mouhcine Khoua, just a centimetre the track just moments further back in bronze. after her 400m exploits, ’s Ahmed Bader Magour golds and she orchestrated a hammered the rest of the field as he glittering performance threw 83.45m for men’s javelin gold. alongside team-mates Elsewhere, Syria won their first Iman Essa, Hajar Alkhaldi athletics medal in Baku after Majd Eddin and 200m champion Ghazal sneaked men’s high jump gold. Edidiong Ofonime Odiong Silver medallist four years ago, Ghazal as Bahrain clocked 44.98secs. went one better after he posted 2.28m, Yinka Ajayi produced a stirring finish which edged him past Qatar’s Mahamat for as they snatched silver away Allamine Hamdi and Iran’s reigning from African rivals Cameroon in a time champion Keyvan Ghanbar Zadeh. of 46.20secs. Azerbaijan clinched their ninth Bahrain then stunned Turkey in the athletics gold as Elena Chebanu clocked men’s relay final to win their eighth 24.69secs to win the women’s 200m T12 athletics gold in Baku. disability final. Saeed Alkhaldi, 200m silver medallist Chebanu won comfortably from Salem Eid Yaqoob and Musa Isah put Indonesia’s Endang Sitorus while Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Bahrain in a great position and Andrew Morocco’s Meryem En-Nourhi earned Naser competes dur- Fisher held off a rampaging Ramil bronze. (AFP) ing the Women’s Guliev as he crossed in 39.55secs, with 400m of the Athletics Turkey pipped to the post by 0.01secs. Turkey’s Guliev missed out on a sprint treble after Bahrain’s Hajar winning 100m and 200m Alkhaldi competes gold, while Cote d’Ivoire during the Women’s gained bronze in 39.82secs 4 x 100 Relay

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